Louise Brooks in “Pandora’s Box,” closing night film of the 2nd Denver Silent Film Festival. Courtesy Denver Silent Film Festival

Denver Silent Film Fest artistic director Howie Movshovitz didn’t temper his enthusiasm when he introduced Serge Bromberg and David Shepard as two of the world’s greatest film archivists Saturday afternoon at the King Center recital hall in the Auraria Campus.

Bromberg joins Shepard as the young but impressive fest’s lifetime achievement honorees and the two rose to the occasion at an afternoon presentation.

The well-attended fest opened Friday with a sold-out screening of William A. Wellman’s “Wings,” and closes with a 7 p.m. screening of G.W. Pabst provocative 1929 classic, “Pandora’s Box,” starring Louise Brooks as a young woman who pushes the boundaries of society sexually with fascinating — and dire — consequences (7 p.m. King Center on the Auraria Campus.

Lisa Kennedy has been The Denver Post film critic for quite a spell. The job returned her to the town she grew up in after 20 years of living elsewhere: mostly in New York City. During the time she's been back, she was voted into the National Society of Film Critics, a first for a Colorado reviewer. When she began Diary of a Mad Moviegoer, she wasn't just cribbing from Tyler Perry. In fact, she seldom goes all Madea on movies, thinking the gig is more like a conversation than a competition about who's right about which flick.